Daniel Richard G. wrote:
>> Where can I find some information on how to use the
>> AFS->NFS translator on
>> Linux? (Does it even exist?)
>>>> My understanding is that the translator currently does not work on Linux. (I
> do believe it works on Solaris.)
>>>> Basically, I'm looking for read-only access, in
>> situations where it's either
>> inconvenient or impossible to compile the AFS kernel
>> modules; I have a couple
>> of systems where the module compiles OK, but doesn't
>> load. (Namely OpenSUSE
>> 11.1, using packages from build.opensuse.org)
>>>> We use UNFS3 (http://unfs3.sf.net/) for this exact purpose, exporting to a
> number of old-school Unix systems. I added proper AFS FID support to it
> recently, so that its filehandle cache plays well with AFS. We run it via
> kstart so that it keeps the tickets/tokens required to read what it needs out
> of AFS.
>Interesting. How do you handle access control for users? Is that just
left to the
client with the normal uid/gid access bits?
-- Ragge
> I've been meaning to send a note about this to the list, to let folks know
> about this new AFS->NFS option on Linux. If any AFS gurus could have a peek at
> afssupport.c in the codebase, I would be grateful for any feedback on the
> implementation.
>>> --Daniel
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